Open Access and Scholarly Communications Relevant Websites
With Open Access being constantly moving, it is important to keep up to date with the most current information. The following websites provide information and tools to help you with your OA journey.
- COAR- Confedaration of Open Access RepostitoriesCOAR is an international association that brings together individual repositories and repository networks in order to build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ is an index of diverse open access journals from around the world.
- PlanSPlan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding and performing organisations. Plan S requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.
- Sherpa servicesThe new site for Sherpa services. You can use this portal to access Sherpa Romeo, Sherpa Juliet, Fact, and OpenDOAR. It also has Open Access compliance and transitional agreement look-up tools.
- Sherpa servicesThe new site for Sherpa services. You can use this portal to access Sherpa Romeo, Sherpa Juliet, Fact, and OpenDOAR. It also has Open Access compliance and transitional agreement look-up tools.
- SURE (Sunderland Repository)
Explore research written by University of Sunderland staff and students. You can browse theses by publication year. - How Open is It?Created by SPARC in conjunction with PLOS and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), the HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Guide standardizes Open Access terminology in an easily understandable, comprehensive resource.